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OLED troubles

stevepeck1 — Fri, 10 Jan 2025 18:33:50 +0000

I have a 5 OLED display and it works intermittently. The first 4 OLEDs right now have “static“ or snowy pixels, and the last one is blank. I can tell they are trying to refresh because four of them blink off for just a moment and then come back on. Any ideas?

Power outage/reboot

Captain_Ron — Thu, 23 Feb 2023 23:15:33 +0000

So we have had a few power outages and when the power comes back on the map is not on. The RPI is up and running and I can connect to it via wifi but I need to go to Map Functions and turn on the map. Any reason it doesn't do this automatically? V4.381

Scrambled OLED display

Captain_Ron — Fri, 03 Feb 2023 02:01:36 +0000

My map has sat for a year and had a set of wires broken off the multiplexer. After soldering them back on the display is still scrambled. The words for OLED is the first one next to the last OLED that is scrambled of #3 as they count form Zero.

The map is working fine and all the wires seem connected so I'm not sure what I need to fix. I have a 4 piece connector that came off one of the OLED's that is scrambled so I suppose one of those is damaged?

Any thoughts?

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Display whole METAR on display

shelbykitcar — Sat, 01 Oct 2022 17:45:36 +0000

Hello-

I was wondering if it would be possible to display the entire METAR on a display similar to this website's version?

Whole Metar on OLED

Also, I'd like to just use 2-4 total OLED's and use them to scroll among some local airport overall. So say each display would have (4) airports each and rotate among them. This would be great in conjuction with the above thought.

Thanks for your help!

-Patrick

Individual OLED configurations

FarSide792 — Wed, 17 Aug 2022 13:34:02 +0000

I just added 4 OLEDs to my current configuration and would like to make each one part of a different "insert" within my map. For my map, I took the larger scale US Wall Planning FAA chart and pulled out the state of FL and overlayed parts of the sectionals for MIA, TPA, MCO, and JAX out in the open water spaces. Ideally, I'd like to put an OLED inside each of these "boxes" and have it only rotate through METAR info for the respective airport (or airports) within it's box.

Perhaps I'm missing some configuration setting, but any guidance or suggestions would be greatly appreciated!

OLED not working/only 1

Aaron Rutherford — Fri, 15 Jul 2022 16:02:01 +0000

so im trying to connect at least 5 OLED's to start, well anyways when i finally got one OLED to power up and work and scan through the metar's the moment i change the OLED count in the settings to anything other the "1" the OLED freezes and does not update. Ive tested all 5 OLEDs and all are working properly. On the multiplexer i can only get the 1 OLED to function on the "SD1/SC1" even when the settings are set to 1 OLED. ive tested all other ports on the multiplexer and only number 1 ports will work, ive ordered a spare multiplexer and tested and now i am unable to get any display function

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OLED locked up

Captain_Ron — Sat, 19 Feb 2022 22:38:49 +0000

The map continued working but a day later I noticed the OLED displays were frozen. I thought the map rebooted at night but I guess not. I could login via the web interface and reboot the map and all worked fine after that.

OLED Refresh rate

Captain_Ron — Mon, 22 Mar 2021 05:15:58 +0000

I have the map on a 10 minute update but the OLED's seem to update about every 2 minutes. I thought they would only update when the map did and I don't see a setting for its cycle time. What's going on?

Separating local and ZULU time on display

Captain_Ron — Mon, 04 Jan 2021 07:26:53 +0000

I would suggest another line to the OLED settings so you can select to turn on Local and Zulu time separately. Right now its both or nothing and I think most people know the local time while the ZULU time displayed may be more useful. My 2 cents worth.

OLED exclusive airports vs high winds

Captain_Ron — Sun, 03 Jan 2021 05:37:37 +0000

It seems that it’s either an exclusive list of airports to display the winds, or have the ones with winds above the user set level displayed.

is there a way to possible do both? Maybe if winds are above the threshold set they get priority in displaying them somewhere in the sequence of OLED? Or maybe they last few displays are used? Just curious how to use this cool feature.